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Lewis Turco
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This volume is a compilation of memoirs and poems of the author and his Sicilian immigrant family.
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Buried in Emily Dickinson’s letters are many lines that are stunningly beautiful, as beautiful as any to be found in her poems. Lewis Turco has taken some of these lines…
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This collection comes from the founding director of both the Cleveland State University Poetry Center in 1962 and the Program in Writing Arts at the State University of New York…
Mark Twain once said that the difference between the almost right word an the right word was the same as the difference between a lightning bug and lightning. Lewis Turco…
This is the long-awaited collection of Lewis Turco’s poems, comprising a dozen books in one. Rhina P. Espaillat, poet, concludes her Foreword to the book with these words: And how…
After a brief biographical sketch of American Puritan poet Bodman (1765-1850), this volume presents 31 poems as the editor believes them to have been originally written. Annotation c. Book News…
This collection comes from the founding director of both the Cleveland State University Poetry Center in 1962, and of the Program in Writing Arts at the State University of New…
Providing an overview of the various schools of poetry that developed during the second half of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first, this book provides insights…
An invaluable resource for writers and students of narrative seeking to master the art of dialogue. The book will teach you how to use dialogue to lay the groundwork for…
Poetry. Lewis Turco… appears to have combined the longevity of Utnapishtim with the energy and industry of Gilgamesh: once seized with inspiration, he wrote THE HERO ENKIDU at white heat…
Poetry. A collection of sonnets by Lewis Turco. THE FOREWORD BLUES Wesli Court said I should write a book,A bunch of blues–enough to fill a book,And he’d design…
The much-anticipated second edition of The Book of Literary Terms features new examples and terms to enhance Turco’s classic guide that students and scholars have relied on over the years…
Now in its fifth edition, The Book of Forms continues to be the go-to reference and guide for students, teachers, and critics. Filled with both common and rarely heard of…
Turco’s short fiction has been appearing since 1965 in various publications. This volume is the first compilation of his works.
… not revisions but one thoroughgoing and far-reaching revision – of the course of American poetry through centuries, as commonly understood. It is polemical but good-humored, lightly and racily written…
Epitaphs for the Poets : poems about poets: longer than R.I.P. but short enough to be carved on a tombstone (whether the poet is great, famous, and dead, great, famous…
Lewis Turco, Professor Emeritus of English Writing Arts, is perhaps the most widely respected poet-scholar in the United States. He took his B.A. from the University of Connecticut in 1959…
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Sheaf of Leaves: Literary Memoirs by Lewis Turco If you want to know what it has meant — and has felt like — to have been an American poet during…
When he was a year out of high school Lewis Turco began publishing his poems in the national literary magazines while he was participating in the World Cruise of the…
The author traces his ancestry on his mother’s side to the Putnam family of Salem Village, Massachusetts, which was involved in the New England witch hunt that brought to a…
Brings together essays analysing the interconnections among race, ethnicity, and sport. Published in memory of C. L. R. James, the revolutionary sociologist and writer from Trinidad, this collection of essays…
